Gem Prices

The purchase price for gems are constant throughout game progression. Gems can be purchased for:

Name

Amount of Gems

Prices

Pile of Gems

50

£1.49

$1.99

€1.99

Sack of Gems

130

£2.99

$4.99

€4.99

Bag of Gems

275

£6.99

$9.99

€9.99

Box of Gems

700

£17.49

$24.99

€24.99

Chest of Gems

1,500

£34.99

$49.99

€49.99

Trunk of Gems

3,750

£69.99

$99.99

€99.99

Note:
The Beginner Bundle is available to purchase for $0.99 for 24 Hours after beginning the game once the tutorial ended.

Gem Value

One gem is equal to whatever time is left up to an hour. This means if there is 02:03:00 (hh:mm:ss) left for the egg to hatch or breed, it will cost three gems to finish it (2 's for the hours + 1 for the 3 minutes). However, if you wait four minutes until 01:59:00 it will only cost two gems. There used to be a glitch that allows players to spend one gem when the timer shows 00:00:00, the notification now asks: "Finish it now for nothing?"

Obtaining Gems

Free gems can be received via friends who gift. Up to 500 gems can be received daily (assuming 500 friends willing to gift), but only three gems a day can be sent to people on a player's friends list.

Gems can be obtained if a goal that requires the user to breed an epic, opposite, gemstone, Pepper, or Forest dragon is completed. The gems awarded range from one to five, depending on the difficulty of the particular dragon in question to breed.

As of March 26, 2013, gems can also be obtained by sharing the completion of some goals on Facebook or Twitter.

For DragonVale's 1st anniversary, Backflip Studios gave 25 free gems to the accounts of those who logged in between September 14, 2012 and September 17, 2012.

Between June 20, 2013 and June 23, 2013, Backflip Studios offered 30% free gems with every purchase, exclusive to Google Play users. The announcement had a typographical error, in that it indicated "July" rather than "June".

For DragonVale's 2nd anniversary, Backflip Studios gave 25 free gems to the accounts of those who logged in from September 13, 2013, onwards by entering "2years" into the Redeem Code Screen and following the steps to collect the gift.

For DragonVale's 3rd anniversary, Backflip Studios gave 33 free gems to the accounts of those who logged in between September 14, 2014 and September 15, 2014.

For DragonVale's 4th anniversary, Backflip Studios gave 25 free gems to the accounts of those who logged in between September 14, 2015 and September 15, 2015.